Today,the species is on the verge of extinction.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

This is a little paradise, a paradise on the verge of being lost as the shades lose their leaves.

这是一个微小的天堂，一个随着叶子的凋落,即将失去的天堂。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This is The Wind Among the Reeds, author William Butler Yeats, the year 1899, on the verge of the new century.

这是威廉巴特勒叶芝的《苇间风》,在新世纪即将到来之际的1899年出版。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"I think the American people are on the verge of a very big win in health care reform early in the next year,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

He was continually imagining himself to be someone on the verge of saying something spectacular, but he wasn't quite there yet.

他一直想象自己,成为那种能说出一些惊世骇俗的话的人，但是他还没有到那一步。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In the life sciences, the journal's editors noted advances in gene therapy something that has long seemed on the verge of a breakthrough.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

If people are on the verge of dying, perhaps it is necessary to overlook that injustice, but I think it's important to keep in mind that we're still committing injustice by taking people's belongings or assets.

如果人们在死亡边缘挣扎，也许忽视这样的不公平是必要的，但我认为即使这样，我们依然要铭记,我们的行为不公正,这是在占有他人的财物或资产。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He terms the rebel's announcement a joke as they are on the verge of being totally defeated.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

We're on the verge now of the first southern primary in this year's election, in South Carolina, and everybody is wondering, is there a new modern South Carolina or not?

我们马上就要迎来在南卡罗来纳州举行的,今年总统大选第一轮南方预选,每一个人都想知道,是否会出现一个崭新的现代的南卡罗来纳

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Analysts warn Turkey could be on the verge of again descending into a spiral of violence.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

And "Channel Firing," on the bottom of 51, is also set in the west of England, Hardy's home country, and is set right on the verge of the First World War.

海峡炮声》在51页的下半部分，也是发生在英格兰西部，哈迪的祖国，并且也是发生在一战临近时期的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"Ben approached a financial system on the verge of collapse with calm and wisdom;

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

The LTTE,in a statement, says 150,000 civilians, on the verge of starvation in the sliver of coastal land they still control, can only be helped by a halt in the fighting.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

Economists say India's purchase of 200 tons of gold shows that the country has come a long way in the two decades since it was on the verge of defaulting on its international debt.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

The Cardinals looked on the verge of winning their first Super Bowl title when Steelers' quarterback Ben Roethlisberger organized a drive capped by a touchdown pass to Santonio Holmes to win the game in the waning seconds.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

It's all we have to go on,at the moment." Sri Lanka's military says it is on the verge of totally defeating the LTTE, which has waged a violent campaign for decades to split the island and create an independent Tamil homeland in the north.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

The White House says the American people are on the "verge" of health-care reform.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27